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[angevin2.livejournal.com]

I've made a community icon! This may not be worthy of a post, but it's pretty and I wanted to show it off. ;) (It's not the one I'm using for this post.)

Also, because you knew it had to happen, the obligatory History Plays survey: which one's your favorite? ;)

Comments

[a-t-rain.livejournal.com]

I'm partial to the whole Henry VI saga, because ... dude, seductive Frenchwomen and severed heads and pirates and fake blind guys and more severed heads and Queen Margaret leading armies and young Richard being all snarky-like and did I mention the severed heads? What's not to like?

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Henry IV part I, because I have a deep and abiding love for Glendower. Also, I saw about half the RSC Histories during my study abroad year in England, and, well, Prince Hal was brilliant.

[lady-isabella.livejournal.com]

I was doing a go-back-&-reread-more-obscure-Shakespeare thing not so long ago, and I was surprised at how much I enjoyed King John (http://www.shakespeare-literature.com/King_John/).

Diverting slightly from Shakespeare, two of the plays in my M.A. thesis were Peele's Edward Longshanks and Marlowe's Edward II. Definitely a contrast between two radically different monarchs.

[galiana-db.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of partial to Richard III. Death, seduction, dastardly deeds, death, deposition of kings, death, dastardly deeds, epic battles, death, evil, villainy, curses, death...

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

If we're purely looking at Shakespeare, I have to go with Richard III (with second place going to the final part of Henry VI). He's just so beautifully snarky. All the time. Even when he's dying. And the seduction scene with Anne is nothing short of sheer brilliance.

[denorios.livejournal.com]

Richard II. Definitely. I never used to have much of an opinion on it, and then I saw Derek Jacobi as Richard, and my heart was given away freely. It's possibly one of the wordiest of the plays, but I just love all of Richard's speeches. And of course, John of Gaunt's dying speech, which everybody knows. ::hearts::

[mixedborder.livejournal.com]

Henry V is great theater, but it's edged out by Richard III in my affections.

[jessabon.livejournal.com]

Henry VI pt. 1, because one well done Joan of Arc coming right up! But really, and totally, and unquestionably, Henry V. Love.